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The Amazons were a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology.

Amazon is an eponym, derived from the legend, for any woman warrior or athlete, including:

• Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
• The Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey
• The Amazonian Guard, an all-female elite bodyguard unit to protect then Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
• Amazon feminism, a branch of feminism that emphasizes female physical prowess
• The Los Angeles Amazons, a women's semi-professional American football team

Amazon may also refer to:

Places[link]

• The Amazon River in South America, the largest river in the world by volume
  • The Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
  • The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin
  • Amazônia Legal, the part of the Amazon jungle which is in Brazil
  • The Peruvian Amazon, the Amazon jungle in Peruvian territory
• Amazon Creek, a tributary of the Long Tom River, Eugene, Oregon, United States

Companies[link]

• Amazon.com, an American on-line sales company based in Seattle, Washington
• True Colors Bookstore, formerly Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Amazone, brand name of Amazonen-Werke, a German manufacturer of agricultural machinery

Arts and entertainment[link]

Books[link]

• Swallows and Amazons, a 1930 novel by Arthur Ransome
• Amazons!, a 1979 anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Amazons II, a 1982 second anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Amazons (novel), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo
• The Amazon, a short 1866 novel by Nikolai Leskov

Comics[link]

• Amazon, also known as Man-Killer, a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Amazon (Amalgam Comics), an amalgamation of DC's Wonder Woman and Marvel's Storm
• Amazons (DC Comics), DC Comics warrior women characters associated with Wonder Woman

Film[link]

• The Amazons, a lost 1917 American silent comedy starring Marguerite Clark
• Amazons (1984 film), an American made-for-television thriller directed by Paul Michael Glaser
• Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
• Amazon (1997 film), a documentary about the Amazon basin

Games[link]

• "Amazon:Total War", an Amazon game using the popular "Rome:Total War" strategy game as game engine, depicting women warriors from fantasy and legend.
• "Amazon:Total War-Reignited", sequel to the Amazon:Total War, depicting ancient maternal societies attempting to free themselves from the yoke of men.
• Amazon, a fairy chess piece combining the queen and the knight
• Amazons (solitaire), a style of solitaire card play
• The Amazon, a playable character in the 1986 video game Pro Wrestling (Nintendo Entertainment System)
• Game of the Amazons, a 1988 board game
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1992 computer game by Access Software
• Amazon, a playable character in the 2000 computer game Diablo II
• Game of the Amazons, a game played with chess queens on a chess board.

Music[link]

• Amazon, English title of Amazonka, a 2008 album by Ukrainian singer Ruslana

Sculpture[link]

• Amazon statue types, a subject of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture

Television[link]

• Amazon (1999 TV series), an adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a documentary about the Amazon basin
• Team Amazon, a team competing in the animated reality TV series Total Drama World Tour
• Kamen Rider Amazon, a 1974-1975 tokusatsu TV series

Theatre[link]

• The Amazons, an 1895 play by Arthur Wing Pinero
• Amazon Theatre, or Teatro Amazonas, an opera house in Manaus, Brazil

Life sciences[link]

• Amazon Lily, a plant native to Central and South America
• Amazon parrots, a large genus of parrot from the Americas
• Amazon World Zoo, a zoo on the Isle of Wight, England

Transportation[link]

Land[link]

• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive run by the Great Western Railway (UK)
• Amazon, was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar
• Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956–1970

Sea[link]

• Amazon class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
• Amazon class sloop of the British Royal Navy
• HMS Amazon, nine ships of the British Royal Navy
• RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
• RMS Amazon (1851), a paddle steamer that burned and sank on her maiden voyage in 1852
• USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark
• Amazon, a Canadian brigantine launched in 1861, best known under its rechristened name, Mary Celeste
• Amazon (yacht), a British screw schooner, built in 1885 as a steam yacht

See also[link]

• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• 1042 Amazone, an asteroid

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Bruce Parry (born 17 March 1969, in Hythe, Hampshire, England) is a former Royal Marines officer who is now a TV presenter and adventurer, known particularly for the documentary programme series Tribe (known as Going Tribal in the United States), co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. He has most recently returned from the Arctic, creating a book and TV series for the BBC.

Background[link]

Parry was born in to a devoutly Christian and military family from Dorset with his father being a retired Major in the Royal Artillery Regiment. He attended the Wells Cathedral School as a boarder between 1978 and 1987 and was Head of house and made the First Rugby XV.

After finishing at Wells, Parry was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines at the age of 18. He served in a humanitarian aid capacity in Kurdistan during and after the First Gulf War.^[1] At 23 he became the youngest officer ever to be made Head of Fitness and Training for the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre. Bruce Parry left the service as a Lieutenant after six years.

He went on to become an expedition leader for Trekforce,^[2] before obtaining a job as a location manager for pop music videos. Parry eventually founded his own company, Endeavour Productions.

Television career[link]

Parry first appeared on television in 2002 in an episode of BBC1's Extreme Lives series entitled "Cannibals and Crampons". Bruce planned, filmed, directed and presented the documentary with his friend Mark Anstice. The film was a first hand account of their successful journey to climb Puncak Mandala in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. This is the second highest mountain of Australasia, but is little known and rarely climbed (their ascent probably being only the second one). The film was made by Ginger Television (becoming SMG). Next Parry was chosen to lead the Children's BBC CBBC expedition Serious Jungle, taking four boys and four girls aged 11 to 15 to Borneo to work with orangutans.

Also in 2002 Parry appeared as the straight-faced instructor opposite the inept survivalist Nick Frost in three episodes of Danger! 50,000 Volts! The following year he made a return to the BBC1's Extreme Lives series making a programme with Debra Veal about a 700 km canoe race down the Yukon River in Canada entitled "Yukon Quest". The same year he returned to CBBC to lead Serious Desert taking a similar group of children, this time to Namibia's Skeleton Coast to work with the endangered Black Rhino. The following year Parry started filming the prime time BBC2 series Tribe in which he lived with various tribal groups exactly as they do in order to better understand their culture.

The first series of Tribe saw Parry living with indigenous peoples in Gabon, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Venezuela. Next Parry was chosen to lead a group of expeditioners across Greenland in the guise of Captain Robert Falcon Scott for a period remake of Scott's fateful last trip to the South Pole. Series two of Tribe was filmed wholly in Ethiopia as a journey between three different tribal groups. Series three of tribe was filmed in Brazil, Polynesia, Siberia, Bhutan, Tanzania and Malaysia. In 2008, Parry journeyed for seven and a half months through Peru and Brazil for his series entitled "Amazon" where he looked at such issues as cocaine, oil, logging, slavery, dams, soya, cattle ranching and disease epidemics amongst Indigenous Peoples. Awards for the work he has been involved in include BAFTA's, RTS Best Presenter and many Film Festival Awards.

In 2010, over the course of one bright Arctic summer, Parry immersed himself in the lives of people living in the Far North, and has recently released a book about his travels. From the Inuit of Greenland to Alaskan whalers and gold-diggers, Canadian oil-men, scientists, and bands of reindeer herders in the remote valleys of Siberia, Parry encountered first-hand the threats to culture, landscape and wildlife that are being felt there.

Campaigns for Survival[link]

Currently, his series, "Arctic" is being shown on BBC2. His previous series Amazon is also being re-run on British TV. To link in with this series and his last one, Tribe, he put together a double album of twenty exclusive new songs from KT Tunstall, Johnny Borrell, A-ha, Black-Eyed Peas, Hot Chip and more. The album is called Bruce Parry presents: Amazon/Tribe - Songs for Survival. The first track on the album 'Ferreting' by supergroup 'Apparatjik' (who are releasing their own album later on, the band is made up of members of Coldplay, MEW, and A-ha) is used as the theme music for Amazon. The record label is Kensaltown Records and all profits go to Survival International.

In a video for Survival about the recording of the album, Songs for Survival, Parry speaks on the importance of raising awareness for indigenous rights. He believes that if people understood the impact that our culture of greed and consumption has on the 'wonderful people' at the other end, they would act differently.^[3]

Spirituality[link]

Parry was raised as a Christian but his experiences among the tribes have led him to believe in a sceptical form of pandeism:

Filmography[link]

• Extreme Lives (2002)
• Serious Jungle (2002)
• Extreme Lives (2003)
• Serious Desert (2003)
• Tribe (Three series - 2005, 2006, 2007)
• Blizzard-Race to the Pole (2006)
• Amazon (2008)
• Arctic (2011)

Publications[link]

• Tribe, by Bruce Parry (Penguin, 2007), ISBN 978-0-7181-4918-5
• Amazon, by Bruce Parry (Penguin, 2008), ISBN 978-0-7181-5434-9
• Arctic, by Bruce Parry with Huw Lewis-Jones (Conway, 2011), ISBN 978-1-84486-130-9
• Brazil by Bruce Parry with Mariah carter on the way

References[link]

External links[link]

• bruceparry.com
• Amazon at BBC Online
• Tribe at BBC Online
• Going Tribal on the Discovery Channel website
• Bruce Parry's Favourite Moments A collection of videos introduced by Bruce Parry on the BBC's Human Planet Explorer